The study examines fifty years (1961-2011) of cooperatives and economic development in Tanzania. Data collection involved review of various reports and documents, as well as interviews. Results show that without co-operatives, ...

The newspaper reports about the benefit of drought insurance to cotton farmers. Cotton growers in the country will soon benefit from a drought insurance scheme. This will be after completion of an experiment being conducted ...

This news is about the potential of Coffee in Tanzania to fetch an income, worth over US$ 200 Million, through the implementation of a comprehensive grass-root based intervention mapped out in the ten years national coffee ...

The Guardian (2012) newspaper article reports on agricultural funding donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) ...

This is about the implementation of two agricultural programmes during the 2011/2012 financial year. These programmes are southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) and the marketing infrastructure, value ...

The Guardian reports that during a seminar hold to train Mkuranga district officials on agriculture, residents from coast region were advised to accept and work with agriculture investors in order to gain agriculture and ...

This news is about coffee growers in Tarime receiving assistance from the National, Microfinance Bank (NBC). This will be the second time for the bank to give the societies millions of money, to buy coffee, a move which ...

This 2009 newspaper article reports on The World Bank’s (WB) East Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme which will be implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. The WB will provide finance to support the three ...

This paper funded by Chronic poverty and Development Policy to analyses on agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania 2000-2010. Growth in agriculture has made contributions to GDP, foreign exchange earnings, ...

This 2012 article reports on the threat of land grabbing. Human Rights Groups have raised concerns about African governments removing villagers off their ancestral land so that the land can be leased or sold to investors ...